U S. KIDNAPPING
FATHER AND SON surrender (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph---Copyright) , MOUNT HOLLY (NX),* October 20. Ellis, barker . and his son surrendered to-day ’■ under bench warrants to the Federal authorities. No specific charge was divulged ' at theif arraignment. The*, father was released on bail of 25,if)01) dollars and the son on bail of 10,000 dollars.
Tjf’our men ' wfere indicted in New York on Apirii 23 for kidnapping Paul Wendel. whose “confession” of murdering the Lindbergh baby gained Bruno Haupmann three day’s life after he was scheduled) to die. One of those indicted was Ellis Parker, jun., son of the famous New Jersey- detective, whom Hoffmann employed in an attempt to prove Hauptmann innocent. According to the charge, Parker, jun., and his accomplices assaulted Wendel in 'New York, kidnapped him and held him prisoner while he was transported to New Jersey.] . .
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19361022.2.32
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1936, Page 5
Word Count
142U S. KIDNAPPING Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1936, Page 5
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in